Illegal New Year’s fireworks spark grass fires, dozens of assaults reported

Days after a man died in a firework explosion, New Year’s Eve revellers let off illegal crackers, sparking three fires, while two teenagers were knifed on the coast.

The 60-year-old was sentenced on Friday after attacking a woman in northern Victoria last year. He is expected to apply for bail.

A woman allegedly stabbed with scissors while protecting her son has called for a wider discussion about violent crime.

The business has been using two public laneways as part of its outdoor seating area for five decades. Now the council is pushing to reinstate its access.

The rising cost of restoring Melbourne’s damaged colonial monuments continues to rise despite extra security arrangements.

Test your knowledge of Melbourne and Victoria with Stephen Brook’s quiz.

Under-the-radar dinners and word the search for a Melbourne base is continuing show the private members’ club has not given up on the city.

The coronial finding into the death of a 33-year-old woman has reignited the injecting room debate, as Geelong is on track to overtake the City of Melbourne as Victoria’s fatal overdose hotspot.

Readers respond to the disclosure of a secret levy to fund infrastructure.

Lawyers for one of the ISIS brides say she initially believed in the terror group’s ideology, but after the birth of her daughter, everything changed.

Former policeman Thomas Horsburgh falsified the prosecution of an innocent man. But he won’t go to jail.

Fallen finance chief Stavro D’Amore agreed to help a Sydney-based drug trafficker launder $75 million, picking up cash in sports bags and claiming it was the funds of abalone fishing.

Use the interactive map to see how many more people could live in your suburb by 2101 as we explore the idea of redirecting the booming population to urban transport hubs and regional towns.

Use the interactive map to see how many more people could live in your suburb by 2101 as we explore the idea of redirecting the booming population to urban transport hubs and regional towns.

Victoria’s politicians are flushed with freebies and partial to singer Ed Sheeran if the latest register of interests is anything to go by.

Victoria’s politicians are flushed with freebies and partial to UK singer Ed Sheeran if the latest register of interests, tabled on Wednesday, is anything to go by.

The death of Dolly Parton has elicited a strong response from readers.

A man has been seriously injured in a shooting outside a Heidelberg West property in the latest of three incidents associated with the Haddara crime network.

The boy, who was allegedly punched in the head in a random attack outside police headquarters, is receiving treatment for brain cancer.

The exclusive club is under investigation by the Fair Work Ombudsman for failing to pay its kitchen staff what they were owed.

The exclusive club is under investigation by the Fair Work Ombudsman for failing to pay its kitchen staff what they were owed.

Jerry Sowood, 27, said he “kept his humanity” when he allegedly stabbed a mother and 10-year-old boy in Melbourne’s CBD on Tuesday.

A teenager who committed a “brazen and violent” carjacking after Victoria’s new “adult time for violent crime” laws took effect will not spend any time in jail.

A man has been seriously injured in a shooting outside a Heidelberg West property in the latest of three incidents associated with the Haddara crime network.

Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Mike Bush says the original investigation that took police to Dezi Freeman’s remote hideaway in the state’s high country remains active.

A 27-year-old man will face court on Wednesday after allegedly punching a child and stabbing a woman outside police headquarters on Tuesday afternoon.

The EPA has intervened on a data centre plan for the first time amid the state’s controversial tech infrastructure boom.

The state of mental health services for young people, as reported by The Age, requires action. We owe our young people the belief that hope lives.

The police officers who walked into Dezi Freeman’s ambush a year ago today say they didn’t know what they were walking into. But they had two of their best with them.

Readers argue that Premier Ben Carroll’s cost-cutting on the SRL is not necessarily a good idea.